This compelling new history situates the religious upheavals of the civil war years within the broader history of the Church of England and demonstrates how, rather than a destructive aberration, this period is integral to (and indeed the climax of) England's post-Reformation history.
The Reformation in England
The book is in three parts: In 'Thomas More and Heresy', Duffy examines how and why England's greatest humanist apparently abandoned the tolerant humanism of his youthful masterpiece Utopia, and became the bitterest opponent of the early ...
This volume seeks to fulfill two crucial needs for students of Tudor England. First, it brings together some of the most readable of the recent innovative essays and articles into a single book.
364; T. Wright (ed.), Letters Relating to the Suppression of Monasteries, Camden Society (1842), pp. 190–1; J. Foxe, Acts and Monuments, (ed.) G. Townsend (London, 1843–49), vol. 5, p. 467. 9. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, ...
This thoroughly updated second edition covers the political history of the period 1509-47 in England.
When the present publisher first issued The Reformation in England in 1962, it was hoped, in the words of its editor, S. M. Houghton, that it would 'be a major contribution to the religious needs of the present age, and that it [would] lead ...